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Re: Allow non-wi <op> wi
On Fri, Oct 6, 2017 at 11:35 AM, Richard Sandiford
<richard.sandiford@linaro.org> wrote:
> Richard Biener <richard.guenther@gmail.com> writes:
>> On Tue, Oct 3, 2017 at 8:34 PM, Richard Sandiford
>> <richard.sandiford@linaro.org> wrote:
>>> This patch uses global rather than member operators for wide-int.h,
>>> so that the first operand can be a non-wide-int type.
>>
>> Not sure why we had the in-class ones. If we had some good arguments
>> they'd still stand. Do you remember?
>
> Not really, sorry. This might not have been discussed specifically.
> It looks like Kenny and Mike's initial commit to the wide-int branch
> had member operators, so it could just have been carried over by
> default. And using member operators in the initial commit might have
> been influenced by double_int (which has them too), since at that time
> wide_int was very much a direct replacement for double_int.
Ah, yeah...
> Thanks,
> Richard